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Nathan Young. Americorps NCCC. Habitat for Humanity. Carpenter. Photog. US. Collettsville, NC. 24yrs old. Film. Digital. Camera things.

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Hanging vinyl soffit today on the Women build house in our Northstone community.

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Bob, Lloyd, and Jesse

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Headboard in the works

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Broken sander platen :(

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I helped build a house this year. I’ve learned so much in so little time. Work can be fun :)

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Portrait for Derek and his best friend Annie.

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Mantle on fourth coat of poly and the pine boards are for a bed frame I’m making. 

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Jesse and I sealing crawlspaces. Fun fun

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Cutting angle iron for some porches 

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Live edge mantle I made for my own house. Walnut. @abootfulofbanjostrings

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From start to somewhere around midpoint in around 6 hours. So much sanding!  @abootfulofbanjostrings

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Sorry

I’ve been inactive for a long time. In the pursuit of becoming more interesting. I now work for Habitat for Humanity as an Americorps for construction staff. I am doing less photography and more woodwork, but I’m back to share it with ya’ll 

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Although social scientific studies of Appalachian peoples are somewhat rare, the characterizations in movies, books, and cartoons regularly chide Appalachians for being simple-minded people who are inarticulate, prone to violence, incestuous, buck-toothed, and lazy (e.g. historian Phyllis Wilson Moore coined the acronym PIWASH — poor, ignorant, white, Anglo-shoeless hillbilly). Much of the early scholarly writings on Appalachian people promoted stereotypical impressions in that they characterized the people of Appalachia as a culturally-isolated people who maintained ancient or abhorrent attitudes. [Only in the last 30 years has this distinctiveness been challenged.]

Eric Swank, Breanne Fahs, and Holly Haywood (2011), Journal of Appalachian Studies  (via appalachian-appreciation)

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